• buen provecho

    buen provecho

    Seville and the first weeks of Madrid.  Is it buen apetito or buen provecho? I asked…

  • second to last

    second to last

    I googled a synonym for penultimate for the title of this post. It came up with…

  • conversations people have in airports

    conversations people have in airports

    I start this post waiting for my very early flight to Bordeaux. My friend Joe missed…

  • si tu veux

    si tu veux

    When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. A proverbial phrase used to encourage optimism and a…

  • media naranja

    media naranja

    Media naranja means soulmate in Spanish. Its literal translation is half of an orange. The central…

  • blue january

    blue january

    Blue skies, blue sea, blue hat, blue January. This sounds like the beginning of a bad…